Looking down Pommenicher Straße from Gaststätte Rosarius, the monstrous machine about to devour the town bites at the ground.
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The middle section of the smokestacks were coal hoppers, and this device would load the coal into the hoppers from the conveyor belt it rode across. The bottom section of the stacks were storage rooms while the very top were, surprise, chimneys for the power plant.
For some time, tugboats were stored next to the elevator.
The hospital featured a farm that once helped to sustain it. This is one of the few remaining signs of those years, near the Nurse’s Cottage.
I’m very happy to have caught Marquette before it was completely destroyed. If you’re wondering, it costs about $1,000,000 to demolish and elevator like this, and not that much work for the demo crews.
This was the exterior wall of the roundhouse; engines would have entered on the other side and machinery would line this side, hence the big windows for natural light.
The mine is sandwiched between village townhomes.
These rails used to connect to those inside the Santiago Tunnel. Now they dangle above tailings.
Spots of yellow gravel mark gold mines with nothing left on the surface. Is this one of the drainage pipes?
A shot of Longmont from the highway. Fuji 35mm.